Mobility News Weekly – Week of April 21, 2013

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Newcomer Lenovo Mobile Philippines has set its sights on the country’s entry-level smartphone market with the launch of its new smartphones the A390, A690, A706 and the K900. Read Original Content

Shipments of sub $250 low-cost smartphones will grow from 259 million in 2013 to 788 million in 2018, according ABI Research. Mid (sub $400) and high ($400+) cost smartphone shipments are expected to grow from 635 million to 925 million over the same period. Read Original Content

Archos announced its “first line of Google certified smartphones”, which are set for availability by the end of May 2013. The company is offering three devices, Archos 35 Carbon, Archos 50 Platinum, and Archos 53 Platinum, all of which use an “unskinned” version of Android. Read Original Content

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Research from Berg Insight indicates the number of mobile subscribers worldwide using a turn-by-turn navigation app on their handset at least once per month grew from 105 million in 2011 to 150 million in 2012. This growth came at the expense of global shipments of personal navigation devices, which declined to 28 million units in 2012 from 33 million units in 2011. Read Original Content

Mobile enterprise app demand contributed to a 3.3 percent year-over-year growth in the applications market in 2012, according to the latest stats from IDC. Read Original Content

Mobile app downloads increased by 11 percent to 13.4 billion during the first quarter of 2013, while direct revenues from paid-for-apps, in-app purchases and subscriptions grew to $2.2 billion (£1.4 billion), according to Canalys. Read Original Content

Global sales of connected devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs are expected to surpass 2.2 billion units and earn $814.3 billion revenue by 2017, according to IDC. Also, worldwide shipment of such devices grew 29.1 percent to 1 billion units worth $576.9 billion year-on-year in 2012. Read Original Content
Indian handset maker Micromax is set to unveil a 3D phone in the market. The upcoming model will be called Canvas AD 115 and will run the Android 4.1.2 Jellybean Operating System. Along with a 5-inch display, 800x480p resolution, 1GB RAM, 1GHz dual-core CPU, the phone will also reportedly have a 3D interface. Read Original Content

Nokia continues to take a hammering in the smartphone market, with sales for the handset maker falling by 20 percent in the first three months of the year. Although Nokia managed to reduce its first-quarter net loss to 272 million euros ($357 million) from a loss of 928 million euros a year earlier, that was mainly thanks to cost cutting. Read Original Content

LG has announced an Optimus G2 handset will launch globally in the third quarter. The smartphone will be LG's rival to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and possibly the next generation of Apple's iPhone. Read Original Content

By 2016 more than 50 percent of mobile apps deployed will be hybrid. Hybrid apps, which offer a balance between native apps and HTML5-based Web apps, provide important advantages for application development, says Gartner. Read Original Content

As Brazil rushes to introduce a blazing-fast fourth-generation wireless network before the 2014 World Cup, fewer than a dozen compatible smartphones will be available in stores, compared with the hundreds of models on sale worldwide. Read Original Content

Nokia, the Finnish mobile-phone maker trying to win back users from Apple and Samsung, struck a deal to get Verizon Wireless to sell its new smartphone. Verizon is set to unveil a plan next month to offer Nokia’s Lumia 928. Read Original Content

Facebook’s new Home Android launcher has passed the 500,000 download mark on the Google Play store after a little over a week in the wild, though it continues to accumulate mostly negative reviews and has sunk to an average rating of 2.2. Read Original Content

According to a new PwC survey of all of the major North American wireless carriers, smartphones remain incredibly popular among subscribers who are consuming an average of 694 MB per month in postpaid data. However, wireless carriers are seeing a dramatic 60 percent slowdown in the growth of traffic on their wireless networks. Read Original Content

Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict serves as the Senior Vice President, Solutions Strategy, at Regalix, a Silicon Valley based company, focused on bringing the best strategies, digital technologies, processes and people together to deliver improved customer experiences, journeys and success through the combination of intelligent solutions, analytics, automation and services.
He is a popular writer, speaker and futurist, and in the past 8 years he has taught workshops for large enterprises and government agencies in 18 different countries. He has over 32 years of experience working with strategic enterprise IT solutions and business processes, and he is also a veteran executive working with both solution and services companies. He has written dozens of technology and strategy reports, over a thousand articles, interviewed hundreds of technology experts, and produced videos on the future of digital technologies and their impact on industries.

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In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...

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The term "digital transformation" (DX) is being used by everyone for just about any company initiative that involves technology, the web, ecommerce, software, or even customer experience. While the term has certainly turned into a buzzword with a lot of hype, the transition to a more connected, digital world is real and comes with real challenges.
In his opening keynote, Four Essentials To Become DX Hero Status Now, Jonathan Hoppe, Co-Founder and CTO of Total Uptime Technologies, shared that ...

Over the course of two days, in addition to insightful conversations and presentations delving into the industry's current pressing challenges, there was considerable buzz about digital transformation and how it is enabling global enterprises to accelerate business growth.
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Never mind that we might not know what the future holds for cryptocurrencies and how much values will fluctuate or even how the process of mining a coin could cost as much as the value of the coin itself - cryptocurrency mining is a hot industry and shows no signs of slowing down. However, energy consumption to mine cryptocurrency is one of the biggest issues facing this industry. Burning huge amounts of electricity isn't incidental to cryptocurrency, it's basically embedded in the core of "mini...

Every organization is facing their own Digital Transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of the competition, or worse, just keep up. Each new opportunity, whether embracing machine learning, IoT, or a cloud migration, seems to bring new development, deployment, and management models. The results are more diverse and federated computing models than any time in our history.

At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throug...

Every organization is facing their own Digital Transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of the competition, or worse, just keep up. Each new opportunity, whether embracing machine learning, IoT, or a cloud migration, seems to bring new development, deployment, and management models. The results are more diverse and federated computing models than any time in our history.

CloudEXPO has been the M&A capital for Cloud companies for more than a decade with memorable acquisition news stories which came out of CloudEXPO expo floor. DevOpsSUMMIT New York faculty member Greg Bledsoe shared his views on IBM's Red Hat acquisition live from NASDAQ floor. Acquisition news was announced during CloudEXPO New York which took place November 12-13, 2019 in New York City.
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Every organization is facing their own Digital Transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of the competition, or worse, just keep up. Each new opportunity, whether embracing machine learning, IoT, or a cloud migration, seems to bring new development, deployment, and management models. The results are more diverse and federated computing models than any time in our history.

SUSE is a German-based, multinational, open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for the enterprise.
Founded in 1992, SUSE is the world's first provider of an Enterprise Linux distribution.

Intel is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Intel supplies pr...

CloudEXPO has been the M&A capital for Cloud companies for more than a decade with memorable acquisition news stories which came out of CloudEXPO expo floor. DevOpsSUMMIT New York faculty member Greg Bledsoe shared his views on IBM's Red Hat acquisition live from NASDAQ floor. Acquisition news was announced during CloudEXPO New York which took place November 12-13, 2019 in New York City.
Our Si...

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The tweets in the network were tweeted over the 7-hour, 6-minute period from Thursday, 10 January 2019 at 1...

Artifex Software began 25-years ago with Ghostscript, a page description language (PDL) interpreter software prevalent in printing and related applications requiring rendering and/or conversion from one software language to another. Founded by renowned computer scientist Dr. L. Peter Deutsch, our company has thrived on the basis of our sharp focus on this area of expertise, a zealous commitment to...

In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
Manish Dixit is VP of Pr...

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Alan Hase is Vice President of Engineering and Chief Development Officer at Big Switch. Alan has more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry and leading global engineering teams which have delivered industry leading innovation in high end routing, security, fabric and wireless technologies. Alan joined Big Switch from Extreme Networks where he was responsible for product strategy f...

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